I developed an extension for VS Code helping users manage their services in Azure. I found that some of our extension users were not aware of the new features after the extension was upgraded. Is there a way to show extension's release note automatically e.g., a popup window or a new opening tab after users upgraded their extensions?
The simplest (no more than 10-20 lines of code) you can do is (even if no VS Code API),
When the extension initializes, check if a file SHOWED is in the extension folder.
If not, pop up and notify your users of the release notes. These are typical functions in VS Code API.
After the notification, generate a zero length SHOWED file there.
Since every extension updates move to a new folder where no SHOWED file exists, your code can always notify the users with release notes again.
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I am working on Win 10 upgrade activity. As you know we can select application for file extension. So, those file will open on that app. e.g. html files only open in Chrome when user double click on that.
We can create XML file (DefaultAppAssociations.xml) and place it in C:\windows\system32
Now, I got the request to make one application default but let user decide if they want any other app. Is there any way to handle such things because defaultappassociations.xml will hard code this. Every time machine restart and it will set the same.
This is only possible as part of the operating system deployment or rather for newly created user profiles.
The command (official documentation):
Dism.exe /online /Import-DefaultAppAssociations:<path to exported xml>
However as I said you cannot alter existing profiles that way. Altering existing profiles in any way that is not the force via gpo is afaik not possible anymore because Microsoft does not want to allow it. A pretty stupid decision but at least you can tell whoever made the request that it is by MS design.
I have an application created in Omnis studio where I want the user to be able to press a button to open Microsoft Excel and then paste what is in the clipboard. To do that I have my application call an AppleScript app Seen here:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
make new workbook
paste special on worksheet active sheet
end tell
However whenever my application calls that script it runs into issues with apple's sandboxing saying that it can't send events to Microsoft Excel.
I read online that in order to get access to sending events in Mac OS you need to have a entitlements.plist file associated with your application. How would I add a entitlements.plist file to my Applescript app so that when it is run it is able to send events to Microsoft Excel?
If you do not sell the app and just use it for your own, best would be to deactivate sandboxing. Your app will still run by righclicking it > open.
If you already have sandboxing enabled there already must be a YOURAPPNAME.entitlements file inside your application structure (not in the compiled app, but in your source code) because sandboxing has to be enabled in that file.
I don't know Omnis studio, you may try using XCode instead which supports entitlements files from the scratch - even if you have to go with applescript objective-c instead of plain applescript.
if you manage to find that file you need to add a new key/value to it like so for addressing Excel:
key: "com.apple.security.temporary-exception.apple-events"
value (type array):
Item 0 > "com.microsoft.excel"
But watch out - if you want to stay in sandbox, from OSX 10.14 there's a new security policy called "security integrity protection" (SIP) by Apple where users also need to allow your app to automate other apps, checkout this thread: "because it is not SIP-protected" - Apple event error in OSX Mojave
To bypass this beginning from 10.14 you also have to add a new line to your info.plist file
key: NSAppleEventsUsageDescription
value: [Some description why you need to use AppleEvents]
I don't know if third party editors will follow the speed Apple provides in things of changes.
This is an older post, but why would you create an Excel file like that, if its just columns of data, just export a CSV file, that Excel can easily open...
Hi, I have a document library in sharepoint 2010 foundation.when i have uploaded a file into a document library from browser, it is showing a message"uploaded successfully" but it is not showing in document library all items.but when am open the site in IE and in library tab am clicking in file explorer button, in that file explorer the doc file is there.but in site -> doc library all items the file is not displaying. Am the administrator the site.
If your library has versioning with minor versions enabled, uploaded files will be drafts. It may be the sort of confusing case that even as administrator, you do not have the rights to see drafts.
In the Library Settings, open the Versioning settings menu. Try setting the Draft Item Security option to all with read or edit permissions. Ensure that you own the respective rights (personally or as a member of an appropriate group).
Changing this option solved the problem for me. However, I experienced this setting as being kind of weird: Setting the option back to its former state (in which I did not see the documents) did not make the documents disappear again.
Ok,
So about a year ago (I think) google went through a transition where they made Google Apps accounts "real" so we could use them in places like the Chrome Web Store. Unfortunately, prior to that happening I had written some extensions that were under the now conflicting account. So, now what I've got is a two accounts where the old extensions are under this conflicting account and anything past that date is under the new account.
So, it is time to upgrade some of these (old extensions), what I'd like to do is move the extensions under the apps account in a way that doesn't cause problems for the users. Does anyone know a way? It seems like the only option is just to place the extensions under the new account and delete them under the old account, but then I think all of the users would have to know to install the new one.
Thoughts? Has someone gone through this process?
EDIT: As #artur-nowak pointed out in the comments it is now possible to transfer extensions between accounts using this form.
If only your extensions were hosted outside Chrome Web Store (CWS) it would be possible to solve this by modifying update_url in manifest.json (so that extensions will start to download updates from another source). But they are not, and CWS doesn't allow you to modify the update_url param. Because of that, I believe you have two options left:
wait for google to add 'change ownership' function in CWS
or add your extensions to CWS again as a desired user and update the old ones to display a popup/notification "please update" with a link to the new version. Users should be more eager to update if you include some new features to attract them. Also, it will be less annoying from them if config will be preserved. To achieve this, export settings to bookmarks panel (it will be easy to access them) and import them in the new version of extension when it's installed.
I'm making a Word 2007 add-in with C# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010. I need an Access 2007 database (a .accdb file) to be placed in the data directory by the clickonce installer. Unfortunately, the file is getting put elsewhere, so the application can't find it at runtime. I've seen various articles refer to using the Application Files dialog on the Publish tab of the project properties to mark the file as a data file, but I have no Application Files button for some reason.
Any idea how to make the Application Files dialog appear, or some other way to manually mark my .accdb file as a data file?
In the Solution Explorer, if you set the file's property to be Copy to Output Directory = Copy Always. Then when you go to Application Files they should default as a Data File.
However, since this is your database I would consider looking at make it safe across updates so you might consider this post.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465298.aspx
By the way, "Application Files" button should be on the project properties' Publish tab.
VSTO Applications do not have the Application Files button available, and you can't set the file types specifically. If your file is not being deployed to the data directory and you want it to be, rename it with a file extension that is marked by ClickOnce as data. This includes .xml, .mdb, and .mdf. Otherwise, the file is deployed with the VSTO application and will be in the same location as the rest of the files.
The location of the deployment files for a VSTO application can be discovered programmatically this way:
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.CodeBase
You might want to move the database, though, because unless you deploy it as data, it will be lost when an update is performed. Or you can check out this article about where to put your data to keep it safe from ClickOnce updates.
I was able to get things to work by using the Mage tool as described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6fehc36e.aspx
The trick with MageUI is it's open file dialog assumes you want to open a manifest associated with a .exe; a vsto project has a .dll, so the manifest doesn't appear in the files list by default, which was really tripping me up.
Basically, this process is a pain because you have to remember to do it manually. I don't know if there's a way to make this part of the build (maybe a post-build step? But this is really a post-publish step).